page_title: Eda Lord Dixon
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Eda Lord Dixon / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Eda Lord Dixon (American, 1876–1926)Hand mirror, ca. 1908American,Silver, ivory, enamel, and glass; 4 5/8 × 9 × 5/8 in. (11.7 × 22.9 × 1.6 cm)The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Jacqueline Loewe Fowler, 2014 (2014.199.1)http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/638280
context_page_description: Eda Hurd Lord Young Dixon was a metal artist working within the Arts and Crafts movement at the beginning of the 20th century.
context_section_description: She first exhibited as Eda Lord Young at the Arts and Crafts Society of Detroit in 1907, and then at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1908.
  A silver, ivory, enamel, and glass hand mirror made by Dixon in 1908 is exhibited on Gallery 706 of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, donated by Jacqueline Loewe Fowler in 2014. The same mirror was sold at Sotheby's in 2013 for $25,000. The mirror was originally exhibited at the 7th Annual Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Original Designs for Decorations and Examples of Art Crafts of Distinctive Merit held at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1908. It was exhibited again in 1915 at the Panama–California Exposition in San Diego. It was featured in Palette and Bench, vol. 3 (1909), House Beautiful, vol. 37 (1915) and The New Interior:  Modern Decorations for the Modern Home by Hazel Adler (1916). It was bought by art patron George G. Booth who lent it to the Detroit Institute of Arts. When Booth founded the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, the hand mirror passed to its collection and then it was sold at Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, in 1972 and sold again in 2013.
  In 1911, the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts published Handicraft and about Lord they wrote: "for three years a pupil of Alexander Fisher of London, and to her naturally, critical and sensitive taste has been added under his inspiring influence a sound technique founded on the best traditions of the craft."
  In 1916 Eda Lord Dixon and her husband Lawrence Belmont Dixon won the top price of $50.00 ($1,172.00 in 2017) assigned by Artists’ Guild of Chicago's exhibition. Always in 1916 they won the Medalist award assigned by the Boston’s Society of Arts and Crafts.
  In 1922 a chalice in silver and enamel was exhibited at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  In 1927 a hand mirror of repousse silver and cloisonne was part of a toilet set of gold and cloisonne sold at the Hudson's Silver Gallery at $200 ($2,728.05 in 2017).
caption: Eda Lord Dixon (American, 1876–1926), Hand mirror, ca. 1908
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